>>25210484
Go back to /mu/ waifuist

trying to sneak dutch in there lol

Bro sneaked in Italian like we wouldn't notice :skull:

>german
kek

I actually know all of those.

understanding comes from inhabiting your own culture not larping like you have access to other cultures

>>25210506
The thing is only known by its opposite. You need to understand other cultures to understand your own

>>25210484
>dutch
that lowers your IQ bro

>>25210484
>dutch
Audible kek

>>25210484
Nice try, ik-ooker.

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>>25210604
>>25210572
>>25210552
>>25210493
the modern world was authored in dutch
you cannot understand business, markets, banking, capitalism or imperialism without understanding dutch

>>25210493
Spinoza alone makes it worth it

German for philosophy
French for prose
Italian for poetry
Latin for science
Greek for drama
Dutch for commerce
English for Shakespeare

Simple as

>>25210484
I'm good on that.

>>25210667
He mainly wrote in Latin.

>>25210484
That's correct. I'm well read, not well spoken.

spanish is superior to all
>>25210484

>>25210484
>dutch
Has literally anything worthwhile been written in Dutch? Even Erasmus and Spinoza wrote in Latin

I'm studying French, Japanese and Old Norse
I want to pick up Icelandic, modern Scandinavian, Classical Japanese, Classical Chinese, Old French, Latin and German eventually

>>25210733
Justify why without saying the words Don Quixote

Mein Französisch ist auch gut aber ich lerne Japanisch nächster. Ich will eine außereuropäische Sprache lernen.

>>25210484
People here don't understand, because they don't really do academic research on any subject, but the reason you learn Dutch is because there are dozens of books and research papers on all kinds of subjects written in Dutch, you know the 16th century history, Calvinism, medicine, early physics, arts and modernity, Indonesian, Germanic folklore, anthropology, dutch architecture, early democratic thought, WWII, European electronics, industrial-agriculture, etc angle and of course pre-war dutch lit and golden age lit.

>>25210619
the dutch were participants in a wider european system - later analysed (in english, not dutch) by adam smith.

dutch literature is garbage and not worth it getting into
t. native dutch speaker

>>25210484
This girl is so rapeble, it's incredible. Someone clearly made a research on this to create this "artist".

>>25211181
>t. zielloos onbelezen generaliseerder

>>25210484
epic twitter reaction image my fellow fourchanneler! updooted

>>25211315
>oldtroon still using updooted 15 years later
the 4chan-reddit meme war is over grandpa, rest easy

>>25210484
Any two of German, French, Latin, and Greek will work.

>>25211109
if you want to be a simpleton secondary source reader, sure content yourself with adam smith and his broad overviews
if you want to see the guts of these systems, you read the ledgers and correspondence of the VOC in the original dutch, a dutch that is beautiful, efficient, and revelatory

>>25212079
Nah, I’m good thanks.

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>he considers himself "aristocratic"
>he's broke

>>25210667
lmao retard

>>25210495
Italian is pretty good though. If you get it you can get Spanish, Romanian, and Portuguese

>>25212290
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was broke too

>>25210667
Profoundly retarded, newfag

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>>25210495
Italian pretty.

>>25213724
Amusing. And Romanian? Catalan? Portuguese?

>>25213732
I'm tempted to expand it a bit. English would be some monstrous chimera with bits of about ten different animals all duct-taped together obviousy.

>>25210619
I feel like you are trying to make a point because you have a vague idea of what the Dutch contributed to world history but no idea what they actually wrote.

No meaningful Dutch contributions were written in Dutch. Erasmus, Grotius and Spinoza wrote in Latin. Huygens and Leeuwenhoek wrote in French. Commerce was done in the language of the customer you were doing commerce with, which is why the Dutch are so multilingual. The Dutch themselves do not care to represent or spread or develop their language. During colonialism, we explicitly forbade Indonesians from speaking Dutch.

>>25210676
English is far an away the best language for science since the second half of the 17th century, ie after the scientific revolution.

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>>25213768
Here we see the sad, destitute modern Western European, who has been taught that his culture is irrelevant, marginal, even nonexistent. According to headmaster Mahmood, the Dutch didn't even speak Dutch or write Dutch. The VOC wrote to each other in French, actually. Please don't consult any primary sources, just trust the experts.

>>25213890
What made you think my culture is irrelevant just because i dont give a shit about the language? And what do you think you're getting out of reading VOC logs except empty performative posturing?

Go read actually great Dutch thinkers like Grotius or Spinoza, or Jan Tinbergen, who founded econometrics If you want actually great Dutch economic thought.

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>>25210676
> Chinese for eating rice
> Hindi for poo in the loo
> Thai for femboys

Retarded